jive turkey

jive turkey

dated slang A ridiculous, idiotic, and contemptible person. "Jive" originated as African-American vernacular. Tell that jive turkey to get his butt in here. With a jive turkey like that in charge, it's no wonder the company is going bankrupt!
See also: jive, turkey
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

jive turkey

n. a stupid person. What jive turkey made this mess?
See also: jive, turkey
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • jivestick
  • jive stick
  • jive talk
  • blow jive
  • jive
  • Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you!
  • Don't let the doorknob hit you where the good Lord split you!
  • pull jive
  • bruh
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IS A JIVE TURKEY? 5WHO TESS Daly and Claudia Winkleman host a Strictly Come Dancing special with past celebrities including Pamela Stephenson and TV chef Ainsley Harriott.
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Some jive turkey spoiled Thanksgiving for a Delta Waterfowl regional director.
Stolen goods
The tracks are "Beautiful Flower" (4:14), "Mewasin Oma" (3:37), "Good Medicine Horse" (2:59), "Short and Petite" (Side-Step, 1:52), "The Bucks" (3:30), "Twin Cities Love" (2:35), "Battle River Style" (2:41), "Bradley's Sweet Sensation" (4:33), "The Rose Part 2" (Side-Step, 2:07), "Jive Turkey" (3:28), "Makaoo" (3:19), "Owass Stick" (3:28), "Onion Lake First Nation" (3:17), "The Gambler" (4:21) and "Sid the Kid" (2:56).
Kihta Wasoh Wapakwani
THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING IN 2005, Aricka Westbrooks, 35, CEO of Jive Turkey, was sleeping on a wooden stool, leaning against the wall of her 1,500-square-foot store in Brooklyn, New York She and her staff were exhausted from frying turkeys 24 hours a day for four days straight.
Signature dish: Aricka Westbrooks ships her legendary deep-fried turkey to customers by mail
In spite of Jive Turkey, a Brooklyn store (motto: grab, gobble, go) selling fried turkey all year round, Rick Boyd, a commercial turkey fryer from Florida said that if botched, this high-risk cooking method was ``like a space-shuttle taking off''.
VALERIE HILL: American turkey
His words give her a glittering ball dangling from the ceiling; men in wide-lapelled jackets,women in tube tops and hot pants; roller skates on everyone; jive turkeys and hot mamas all getting down and doing The Batman, The Bump, The Funky Chicken, The Hustle, and The Penguin as they come down the Soul Train line.
Discotheque of Negroes